Apparatus for making one-piece cloth marking tags



Feb. 22, 1944. F, MAGIDSQN 2,342,592

APPARATUS FOR MAKING ONE-PIECE CLOTH MARKING TAGS Filed Aug. 26, 1942 2 Sheets-Sheet l IIZVENTOR Fb. 22, 1944. v F. MAGIDSON 2,342,592

APPARATUS FOR MAKING ONE-PIECE CLOTH MARKING TAGS Filed Aug. 26, 1942 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOEL Patented Feb. 22, 1944 APPARATUS FOR MAKING ONE-PIECE CLOTH MARKING TAGS Frank Magidson, Pittsburgh, Pa., assignor to Pittsburgh Tag Company, a corporation of Pennsylvania Application August 26, 1942, Serial No. 456,289

4 Claims.

This invention relates to marking tags for use in laundries, dry cleaning establishments and the like and more particularly to apparatus for making one-piece cloth marking tags such as broadly disclosed in an application for patent filed by me on July 15, 19%2, under Serial No. 451,021.

The marking tag broadly disclosed in said application, in the form now preferred by me has a relatively broad rectangular body portion for receiving identifying marks and a loop portion which projects from one end of the body portion, has its side edges paralleling the side edges of the body portion, is of the same length as the body portion and is slit along its longitudinal center line throughout a major part of its length, with such slit terminating short of the outer end of the loop portion and extending slightly into the body portion.

Each tag is formed as a unitary structure from a single piece of woven fabric material preferably of the type known as marking tag cloth. This cloth is flat, is closely woven and usually has from 70-100 threads to the inch in both directions, that is, longitudinally and transversely and is usually sized so as to present a smooth marking surface.

An object of this invention is to produce apparatus for making such tags without any waste of cloth.

Another object is to produce apparatus for making such tags cheaply and without in any way distorting the cloth from which they are made.

These and other objects which will be apparent to those skilled in this particular art, I attain by means of the apparatus described in the specification and'illustrated more or less diagrammatically in the drawings accompanying and forming part of this application.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a more or less schematic perspective view of the apparatus Of this invention;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view looking toward the lower or active face of the slitting and punching die entering into the make-up of the appa ratus of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of a tag such as broadly disclosed in my said prior application, in the form which I now prefer;

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a length of cloth fed from a roll, and depicts the operation of severing two completed tags from such length of cloth while the apparatus is forming the slits for the loop portions of the two following tags.

The tag disclosed by said prior application, as well as the tag of the preferred form, as shown in Figure 3 of the present application, can of course be made by hand. However, for the sake of accuracy and speed I prefer to employ a mechanism in which the slitting for the loop portions of the tags and the punching out of the tags from the cloth are synchronized with the feed of the cloth into position for such operations.

In the more or less schematic device, shown in perspective in Figure 1 of the drawings, cloth 5 is fed from a roll 5 by a feeder I through guides 8-8 to position below a punchin die carrier or holder 9.

The die carrier or holder is regularly reciprocated toward and from a bed which is not shown but which supports the cloth in position below the die. The die is reciprocated by an eccentric l0 secured to a shaft 1 I which is preferably power operated.

A cam I2 secured to shaft H operates feeder 1 through the agency of a rocker 3, a bell crank made up of parts M, 15 and IS, a link ll and an adjustable connector IS. A cam contact roller I9 carried at one end of rocker I3 is yieldingly held in contact with cam l2 by a spring 2!).

Secured to the underside of die holder or car rier 9 is a die, such as is disclosed in Figure 2, for forming the slits for two loop portions and, simultaneously with the forming of such slits, punching out a completed tag with the longitudinal center line of its loop portion coinciding with the second slit from the free end of the cloth. Punching out this tag separates two tags from the cloth strip. This die comprises a base portion 2|, two slitters 22 and 23, and a tag punching portion 24.

The arrangement of eccentric Ill. and cam 12, and the devices associated with cam I2, is such that cloth 5 is fed from roll 6 to position while the die holder is being raised. Connector [8 is so adjusted that each feed of the cloth is equal to the overall width of two tags arranged side by side in abutting relation, with the bod portion of one such tag alongsid the loop portion of the other tag. If, therefore, the body portion of each tag is one inch wide, and the loop portion one-half inch wide, the cloth will be moved forward one and one-half inches each time the die carrier is raised.

Since the overall length of the tag of the form now preferred by me, and as shown in Figure 3, is four and one-half inches, I prefer to cut the cloth, forming roll 6, to a Width of four and onehalf inches in order to avoid any waste of cloth material.

The body portion as well as the loop portion of each tag is preferably two and one-quarter inches long. The die preferably has its corners 2525 and 26-46 rounded as shown, for the purpose of improving the appearance of the tag and facilitating the punching operation.

In Figure 4 it is assumed that several tags have been completed and severed from strip 5, that slits a and b have been previously formed by slitters 22 and 23, and that portion 24 of the die has descended to a position where tag 0, th second tag from the free end of the strip, has been severed from strip 5.

The severing of the second tag 0 from strip 5 has also severed the first tag d from tag 0. Simultaneously with the operation of severing the second tag 0 from strip 5, the slitters 22 and 23 have formed slits e and f for the loop portions of the two following or succeeding tags.

For the purpose of illustration we have shown tag cl slightly separated from tag 0, and tag 0 slightly separated from the free end of the remaining strip.

The portion of Figure 4 to the right of tag 0 shows the strip as it appears while moving to position beneath the die; slits e and I having been formed during the severing of tag 0 from the strip.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In apparatus for making from a strip of tag cloth having a width equal to the overall length of one tag, one-piece cloth marking tags each having a relatively wide substantially rectangular body portion and a loop portion which projects from one end of the body portion, is narrower than the body portion, has its side edges paralleling the side edges of the body portion and is slit along its longitudinal center line throughout a major part of its length, means for feeding such strip longitudinally of itself in a step by step manner with the length of each such step equalling the overall width of two such tags ar ranged side by side in abutting relation and with the body portion of one tag alongside the loop portion of the other tag, means for forming two parallel slits in the cloth extending from points spaced inwardly from its opposite side edges to points adjacent its longitudinal center and spaced apart a distance equal to the length of the cloth feed, and means operating simultaneously therewith for punching out a complete tag with the longitudinal center line of its loop portion coinsiding with the second slit from the free end of the cloth while two similarly arranged slits for the loop portions of two succeeding tags are formed,

2. Apparatus for makin from a roll of tag cloth having a width equal to the overall length of one one-piece cloth marking tags each having a relatively wide substantially rectangular body portion and a loop portion which projects from one end of the body portion, is narrower than the body portion, has its side edges paralleling the side edges of the body portion and is slit along its longitudinal center line throughout a major part of its length, means for feeding cloth from such roll in a step by step manner with the length of each such step equalling the overall width of two Such tags arranged side by side in abutting relation, with the body portion of one tag alongside the loop portion of the other tag, means for forming two parallel slits in the cloth extending from points spaced inwardly from its opposite side edges to points adjacent its longitudinal center and spaced apart a distance equal to the length of the cloth feed, means for punching out a complete tag with the longitudinal center line of its loop portion coinciding with the second slit from the free end of the cloth, while two similarly arranged slits on the roll side of such punched out tag are formed, the construction and arrangement being such that two tags with slit loop portions are completed as the slits for the loop portions of two succeeding tags are formed.

3. Apparatus for making from a roll of tag cloth having a width equal to the overall length of one tag, one-piece cloth marking tags each having a relatively wide substantially rectangular body portion and a loop portion which projects from one end of the body portion, is narrower than the body portion, has its side edges paralleling the side edges of the body portion and is slit along its longitudinal center line throughout a major part of its length, means for feeding cio-th from such roll in a step by step manner with the length of each such step equalling the overall width of two such tags arranged side by side in abutting relation with the body portion of one tag alongside the loop portion of the other tag, means for forming two parallel slits in the cloth extending from points spaced inwardly from its opposite side edges to points slightly beyond its longitudinal center and spaced apart a distance equal to the length of the cloth feed, means for punching out a complete tag with the longitudinal center line of its loop portion coinciding with the second slit from the free end of the cloth while two similarly arranged slits on the roll side of such punched out tag are formed.

4. Apparatus for making from a roll of tag cloth having a width which is at least equal to the overall length of one tag, one-piece cloth marking tags each having a relatively wide substantially rectangular body portion and a loop portion which projects from one end of the body portion, is narrower than the body portion, has its side edges paralleling the side edges of the body portion and is slit along its longitudinal center line throughout a major part of its length, means for feeding cloth from such roll in a step by step manner with the length of each such step equalling the overall width of two such tags arranged side by side in abutting relation and with the body portion of one tag alongside the loop portion of the other tag, means for forming two parallel slits in the cloth extending from points spaced inwardly from its opposite side edges to points adjacent its longitudinal center and spaced apart a distance equal to the length of the cloth feed, means for punching out a complete tag with the longitudinal center line of its loop portion coinciding with the second slit from the free end of the cloth while forming two similarly arranged slits on the roll side of such punched out tag; the construction and arrangement being such that two tags with slit loop portions are completed as the slits for the loop portions of two succeeding tags are formed.

FRANK MAGIDSON. 

